Discovery of an MIT-like atracotoxin family: Spider venom peptides that share sequence homology but not pharmacological properties with AVIT family proteins

Peptides

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2412-2426

  Wen, Suping ^a   Wilson, David T R ^b   Kuruppu, Sanjaya ^c   Korsinczky, Michael L J ^b   Hedrick, Joseph ^d   Pang, Ling ^d   Szeto, Tim ^e,f   Hodgson, Wayne C ^c   Alewood, Paul F ^b   Nicholson, Graham M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^f LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACTX Hvf17; Bv8; Funnel web spider; Mamba intestinal toxin 1; Prokineticin

Indexed keywords

ATRACOTOXIN; DISULFIDE; ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; MAMBA INTESTINAL TOXIN 1; PEPTIDE; SPIDER VENOM; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ILEUM; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH FUNDUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL LINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR, ENDOCRINE-GLAND-DERIVED;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS; DIPLURIDAE; HADRONYCHE; HADRONYCHE INFENSA; HADRONYCHE VERSUTA; HEXATHELIDAE; MAMMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 27944491979     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2005.05.012     Document Type: Article

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